Hints: When using the ACME mapper links which are available for some of the OVTA places:
-I like the TOPO view option which you may set in the upper right. It is 1950s vintage locality layout. Hybrid is my second choice. I use map to see highways and orient myself to today’s routes.
-You may drag the map around. Do not click on the thumb tacks or you will need to wait on the timer to close the title box. Drag with your pointer off the tacks.
-The box at the lower right shows the co-ordinates of the cross hairs at the center of the screen. I find it handy to drag across and copy (Ctl-C) for use in other places.
-Double click will zoom in and center the point where you click
-The zoomer control in upper left gives you down low or high in the sky focusNote that William Dale Carter might place the thumb tack precisely at the patriot’s chair at his dinner table. Your humble obedient servant might have fumbled a few across the fence in the next door neighbor’s field.

Lexington Massachusetts displays the oldest national military monument for the “shot heard around the world.” Kings Mountain holds the second, Dr. William McLean’s marker for four “South Fork Boys” who died in the battle which “turned the tide of the war.” The 1815 monument is pictured by RL Anderson in the Lincoln County link under the BKM internet tab, page 13. The Overmountain Victory Trail displays background history of the patriots at Kings Mountain marking places from whence they came and to which they returned. Who they were, cross mountain relationships, their roots, their methods, background stories, and the causes for the battles can shine on this virtual monument.

Then 1909 work start:
Do you remember when there were no misteaks on the 1909 Kings Mountain monument plaque? This picture shows it under construction. This web site is also under construction. You may volunteer to help.

The Overmountain Victory Trail are the routes which the Patriots used to join forces, then cross the Broad River at Cherokee Ford to pursue Patrick Ferguson’s enemy forces to Kings Mountain. As residents of the places and descendants of the people add more details, we will have a more complete picture of the communities from which the patriots converged to form the brigade which reversed the direction of the southern front of the American Revolution.